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I was part of Google SoC in 2005, and it was Miguel de Icaza of the Mono Project who reviewed and decided to accept my application. NOT Google. Google just give
by jey 20y ago
I was part of Google SoC in 2005, and it was Miguel de Icaza of the Mono Project who reviewed and decided to accept my application. NOT Google. Google just gives each project a certain number of slots to fill. So at least in 2005, it was the Open Source project that picked which applicants to fill their slots with.
How would Google be able to judge the worth and merits of each proposal to the OS project anyway? :)
I also did not mean that being an established Open Source project meant that the project automatically gets SoC slots. But it does seem to me like established Open Source projects can pretty easily get slots for SoC. In other words, Google isn't too picky, nor are they only looking for contributors to the projects that Google finds useful.
- dpapathanasiou 20y agoSo at least in 2005, it was the Open Source project that picked which applicants to fill their slots with. My only exposure to SoC is this year, so it sounds like the process has changed. Currently, the "mentoring organization" has to be accepted by Google (not sure why really), but after that, each student proposal also gets scrutinized by Google as well -- I guess it's how they keep all those new hires busy ;) But it does seem to me like established Open Source projects can pretty easily get slots for SoC. That's probably true, though I did hear anecdotal evidence about a large number of Apache projects not getting funded for whatever reason -- it's surprising, since you would think that Apache in particular would be important to them, unless they're already beyond using Apache themselves.